What Happens When Judaism Becomes Ethics?
One of my favorite camp counselors from my youth, now a respected university instructor and demographer, Marc...
Who is IN and Who is OUT?
I recently attended a think tank talking about how to expand “our” reach to interfaith families, Jews of all...
The Choosing People
On Yom Kippur in 2013, Rabbi Rachel Saphire of Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, MA, gave an inspiring sermon....
Clergy, High Holy Days, Identity, Professional Development, Professionals Stories
An Interfaith Family’s Bar Mitzvah
I recently had the honor of working with an interfaith family as their son, Jonah, prepared for his Bar Mitzvah....
Opening the Gates
Leading up to and during my vacation there have been three big intermarriage stories in the media. They all...
Jewish Educators: Keeping It Real
My last blog post was a plea to program providers to look at their enrollment forms with new lenses this summer....
Clergy, Professionals, Religious Education, Religious Life, Resources
More on Ordaining Intermarried Rabbis
Kudos to Paul Golin, associate executive director of the Jewish Outreach Institute, for a powerful contribution...
Rabbis and Intermarriage
I recently read an article, Debatable: Should Our Seminary Admit Students with Non-Jewish Partners?, in the...
Encouraging the Welcoming of Interfaith Couples and Families
Six years ago, under the leadership of Leonard Wasserman, InterFaithways board member Bill Schwartz urged the...
Teaching the Why?
I attended part of the International Institute for Secular Humanist Judaism’s Colloquium at Northwestern this...
Recommendations for Creating a Welcoming Policy Document
Each synagogue is different in terms of boundaries and limitations on the participation of those who are not...
Rabbinical School and the Interfaith Marriage
New Voices, the National Jewish Student Magazine published a well-reported story on The Coming of the Intermarried...
A Catholic Priest’s Perspective on Interfaith Marriage
Not too long ago, it was very uncommon for people to marry outside of their religion. Jews married Jews and...
“Next Year in Jerusalem” or could it be “New Hampshire”?
I officiated at two interfaith weddings this past Thanksgiving weekend. One wedding I co-officiated with a Catholic...
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